19th century longsword seminar

The Victorian Era saw the rise of the first HEMA practitioners, leading to the revival of longsword fencing (among other weapons). Two handed swords began to appear as curiosities in public displays of the martial arts and productions of historical dramas. To try encourage the spread Victorian Era HEMA Alfred Hutton devised a simplified longsword method that could be practised in fencing schools along side modern weapons, which will be presented in this workshop.
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The similarities between baton and longsword are there but not one-to-one. Giuseppe Cerri makes these equivalencies in his 'trattato teorico-pratico della sherma di bastone' in his preface making those brief comparisons to Marozzo. I am currently exploring those and rn i think there are more similarities to Fiore in the style than Marozzo. I am slowly going through his book on my blog where i go into these details lesson by lesson. Not much on there yet but its coming. I recommend getting a hold of Cerri's book, its translated.
But things like the lack of edge is called out as well as the ability to slide the hands along the stick. Also says that blows like cut 1 & 2(called bandolieras) are secondary blows to a cut 7(colpo di testa).
The style is very much based on the italian sabre methods predominant in N. Italy at the time but has a feel to it that again, to me has shades of Fiore.
I will be checking out more hutton now though, great lesson, love the channel. 🍻